08 Feb

Cybercrime duo accused of picking $2.5M from Apple’s orchard

A cybersecurity researcher and his pal are facing charges in California after they allegedly defrauded an unnamed company, almost certainly Apple, out of $2.5 million.

Author rabih
08 Feb

NIST’s International Cybersecurity and Privacy Engagement Update – International Dialogues, Workshops, and Translations

Credit: Shutterstock/Michael Traitov With the new year under way, NIST is continuing to engage with our international partners to enhance cybersecurity.  Here are some updates

Author rabih
08 Feb

The buck stops here: Why the stakes are high for CISOs

Business Security Heavy workloads and the specter of personal liability for incidents take a toll on security leaders, so much so that many of them

Author rabih
08 Feb

MoqHao evolution: New variants start automatically right after installation

Authored by Dexter Shin  MoqHao is a well-known Android malware family associated with the Roaming Mantis threat actor group first discovered in 2015. McAfee Mobile

Author rabih
08 Feb

Rust can help make software secure – but it’s no cure-all

Memory-safety flaws represent the majority of high-severity problems for Google and Microsoft, but they’re not necessarily associated with the majority of vulnerabilities that actually get

Author rabih
08 Feb

IT suppliers hacked off with Uncle Sam’s demands in aftermath of cyberattacks

Organizations that sell IT services to Uncle Sam are peeved at proposed changes to procurement rules that would require them to allow US government agencies

Author rabih
07 Feb

Volt Typhoon not the only Chinese crew lurking in US energy, critical networks

Volt Typhoon isn’t the only Chinese spying crew infiltrating computer networks in America’s energy sector and other critical organizations with the aim of wrecking equipment

Author rabih
07 Feb

Half of polled infosec pros say their degree was less than useful for real-world work

Half of infosec professionals polled by Kaspersky said any cybersecurity knowledge they picked up from their higher education is at best somewhat useful for doing

Author rabih
07 Feb

US says China’s Volt Typhoon is readying destructive cyberattacks

The US government today confirmed that China’s Volt Typhoon crew comprised “multiple” critical infrastructure org’s IT networks, and warned that the state-sponored hackers are readying

Author rabih
07 Feb

Generative AI: Cross the Stream Where it is Shallowest

The explosive growth of Generative AI has sparked many questions and considerations not just within tech circles, but in mainstream society in general. Both the

Author rabih
07 Feb

Iran’s cyber operations in Israel a potential prelude to US election interference

Iran’s anti-Israel cyber operations are providing a window into the techniques the country may deploy in the run-up to the 2024 US Presidential elections, Microsoft

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07 Feb

Double trouble replay for Fortinet as it reissues critical FortiSIEM vulns

Updated Fortinet’s FortiSIEM product is vulnerable to two maximum-severity security vulnerabilities that allow for remote code execution, and it recently told the world about this

Author rabih
07 Feb

Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute

We’re very familiar with the many projects in which Raspberry Pi hardware is used, from giving old computers a new lease of life through to

Author rabih
07 Feb

JetBrains urges swift patching of latest critical TeamCity flaw

JetBrains is encouraging all users of TeamCity (on-prem) to upgrade to the latest version following the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in the CI/CD tool.

Author rabih
07 Feb

The spyware business is booming despite government crackdowns

The commercial spyware economy – despite government and big tech’s efforts to crack down – appears to be booming. In addition to the major players

Author rabih
07 Feb

DEF CON is canceled! No, really this time – but the show will go on

It’s an annual meme that DEF CON infosec conference has been canceled, but this time it actually happened. The world’s largest hacking conference, held since

Author rabih
06 Feb

Mozilla adds paid-for data-deletion tier to Monitor, its privacy-breach radar

Mozilla on Tuesday expanded its free privacy-monitoring service with a paid-for tier called Mozilla Monitor Plus that will try to get data brokers to delete

Author rabih
06 Feb

Verizon says 63K employees’ info fell into the wrong hands – an insider this time

Verizon is notifying more than 63,000 people, mostly current employees, that an insider, accidentally or otherwise, had inappropriate access to their personal data. The privacy

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